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'After reading your book, it feels as if I have been there!'

If there is a single comment which summarizes the reaction to reading one of Ian Wilson's series of hardcover steam books, that is it.

Written in a moment-by-moment narrative style, like a gripping novel. Hundreds of photographs, maps and time tables printed on high-gloss archival paper.

Ian's books are the definitive story of locomotives, trains, operations, history and occupations on the Canadian National Railways (CNR) in Ontario during the steam-to-diesel transition era of the 1950s.

 
What the reviewers are saying:

It would be difficult to put together a book that better depicts a particular railroad than this one - it entertains and informs with grace and style. Take a bow, Mr. Wilson; you deserve it.
JIM BOYD

The best explanation of how such a place worked that I have ever read.
WILLIAM SCHAUMBURG

I will continue to buy every book Ian Wilson puts out.
JOHN SWANSON

Ian has set standards that any volume should try and meet.
PAUL BOWN

These books are a series of chapters telling and recreating separate stories about railway life... this is a semi-transcript of "oral history" that may have been lost except for this effort. I felt as if I was there in space and time.
TOM KELCEC

If you are a fan of CNR operations in the days of steam you will want to acquire this work.
PAUL BOWN

An entertaining and informative read, and a wonderful photographic essay about 1950s railroading.
TREVOR MARSHALL

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